50-654: Newenham may refer to: People Thomas Newenham Deane (1828–1899), Irish architect Edward Newenham (1734–1814), Irish politician William Newenham Montague Orpen KBE, RA, RHA (1878–1931), Irish artist John Newenham Summerson CH CBE (1904–1992), British architectural historian George Newenham Wright (1794–1877), Irish writer and Anglican clergyman Places Newenham Abbey , Cistercian abbey founded in 1247 in Axminster, Devon, England Cape Newenham LRRS Airport , military airstrip southeast of Cape Newenham, in
100-468: A codicil to his will reducing the amount of money he left to the school, possibly due to a family financial problem, but instead leaving his eight acre Conduit Close estate in Middlesex : At the time this seemed like a poor exchange, as the estate consisted of undeveloped farmland on the edge of London, however, in time this endowment made Rugby School a wealthy institution due to the subsequent development of
150-499: A Scholarship are capable of obtaining a 10% fee deduction, although more than one scholarship can be awarded to one student. There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians , including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis , the inventor of Australian rules football , Tom Wills , the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr. , Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain , author and mathematician Lewis Carroll , poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold ,
200-469: A long-established procedure in sharing the information with each other and that they were unaware of the change to the law (on which they had not been consulted). She wrote to John Vickers , the OFT director-general, stating "They are not a group of businessmen meeting behind closed doors to fix the price of their products to the disadvantage of the consumer. They are schools that have quite openly continued to follow
250-438: A steady growth. Under the headmastership of Henry Holyoake (from 1688 to 1731) the school became more than simply a local concern, and began to take on national importance. By the end of the 17th century, there were pupils from every part of England attending the school. The school was originally based in a wooden schoolhouse on Church Street opposite St Andrew's Church , which incorporated Lawrence Sheriff's former house. By
300-564: A zoologist and medical doctor, World War I veteran, was President of both Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Medical Society of London , and vice-president of the British Ornithologists' Union . Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly joined the army in 1915, straight after leaving the school, earned a Military Cross during the First World War , and later returned to the school as Director of Art. The Rugbeian Society
350-416: Is a handball game, similar to squash , played in an enclosed court. It has similarities with Winchester fives (a form of Wessex fives) and Eton fives . It is most commonly believed to be derived from Wessex fives, a game played by Thomas Arnold , Headmaster of Rugby, who had played Wessex fives when a boy at Lord Weymouth's Grammar, now Warminster School . The open court of Wessex fives, built in 1787,
400-498: Is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby , Warwickshire , England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. Up to 1667, the school remained in comparative obscurity. Its re-establishment by Thomas Arnold during his time as Headmaster, from 1828 to 1841, was seen as
450-670: Is for former pupils at the school. An Old Rugbeian is sometimes referred to as an OR. The purposes of the society are to encourage and help Rugbeians in interacting with each other and to strengthen the ties between ORs and the school. In 2010 the Rugbeians reached the semi-finals of the Public Schools' Old Boys' Sevens tournament, hosted by the Old Silhillians to celebrate the 450th anniversary of fellow Warwickshire public school, Solihull School . The buildings of Rugby School date from
500-647: Is named, and Herbert Armitage James (1895–1910) In 1845, a committee of Rugby schoolboys, William Delafield Arnold , W. W. Shirley and Frederick Hutchins, wrote the "Laws of Football as Played At Rugby School", the first published set of laws for any code of football. Rugby was one of the nine prestigious schools investigated by the Clarendon Commission of 1861–64 (the schools under scrutiny being Eton , Charterhouse , Harrow , Shrewsbury , Westminster , and Winchester , and two day schools: St Paul's and Merchant Taylors ). Rugby went on to be included in
550-479: Is still in existence at Warminster School although it has fallen out of regular use. Rugby fives is played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles), the aim being to hit the ball above a 'bar' across the front wall in such a way that the opposition cannot return it before a second bounce. The ball is slightly larger than a golf ball , leather-coated and hard. Players wear leather padded gloves on both hands, with which they hit
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#1732891707954600-535: Is the birthplace of rugby football . Rugby School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the will of Lawrence Sheriff , who had made his fortune supplying groceries to Queen Elizabeth I of England . In the last few months of his life, Sheriff had drawn up a will which stipulated that his fortune should be used to found almshouses and a free grammar school "to serve chiefly for the children of Rugby and Brownsover ... and next for such as be of other places hereunto adjoyneing.". Shortly before his death, Sheriff added
650-461: Is the chapel, dating from 1872, which is topped by an octagonal tower 138 feet (42 m) tall, and is grade I listed . Butterfield's New Quad buildings are Grade II* listed and date from 1867 to 1885. The Grade II* War Memorial chapel, designed by Sir Charles Nicholson , dates to 1922. Nicholson was educated at the school from the late-1870s. The Temple Speech Room on Barby Road was named after former Rugby headmaster, Frederick Temple , It
700-622: The Competition Act, 1998 . All of the schools involved were ordered to abandon this practice, pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 each and to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information had been shared. The head of the Independent Schools Council declared that independent schools had always been exempt from anti-cartel rules applied to business, were following
750-515: The Kildare Street Club in Dublin, and Queen's College Cork , now University College Cork . He was known as a conservation architect , involved in the restoration (including the incorporation of the original twelfth-century Romanesque chancel) of St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam . His work on the conservation of St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny , was less successful and brought him into conflict with
800-528: The Public Schools Act 1868 , which ultimately related only to the seven boarding schools. From the early days of the school the pupils were divided into "Foundationers" i.e. boys who lived in Rugby and surrounding villages who received free schooling, as per Sheriff's original bequest, and "Non-Foundationers", boys from outside the Rugby area who paid fees and were boarders . Non-Foundationers were admitted from
850-470: The Trinity College Dublin campus. Sir Thomas Newenham Deane was born on the 15 of June in 1828 near Cork , Ireland . He was the son of Sir Thomas Deane , an architect, and Eliza O’Callaghan Newenham, Sir Thomas Deane's second wife. Deane was born as the oldest of 3 siblings. As the only son Deane had two younger sisters, Susanna Adelaide (Ada) and Olivia Louisa. From his father's first marriage
900-465: The 1740s this building was in poor condition, and the school looked to relocate to new premises. In 1750, the school moved to its current location to the south of the town centre, when it purchased a former Manor House at the south of High Street; this became the Master's house, a new schoolhouse was built alongside. The current school buildings date from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry Ingles, who
950-592: The 18th and 19th century with some early 20th-century additions. The oldest buildings are the Old Quad Buildings and the School House the oldest parts of which date from 1748, but were mostly built between 1809 and 1813, designed by Henry Hakewill , these are grade II* listed . Most of the current landmark buildings date from the Victorian era and were designed by William Butterfield : The most notable of these
1000-422: The U.S. state of Alaska Cape Newenham Air Force Station , closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station See also [ edit ] Newnam Newnham (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Newenham All pages with titles containing Newenham Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
1050-607: The University of Wisconsin-Madison, lectured on Arnold's time at Rugby. According to Mosse, Thomas Arnold created an institution which fused religious and moral principles, gentlemanly conduct, and learning based on self-discipline. These morals were socially enforced through the "Gospel of work". The object of education was to produce "the Christian gentleman", a man with good outward appearance, playful but earnest, industrious, manly, honest, virginal pure, innocent, and responsible. In 1888
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#17328917079541100-399: The appointment of Marie Bethell Beauclerc by Percival was the first appointment of a female teacher in an English boys' public school and the first time shorthand had been taught in any such school. The shorthand course was popular with one hundred boys in the classes. In September 2005, the school was one of fifty independent schools operating independent school fee-fixing , in breach of
1150-575: The area and rise in land values. The area of what is now the Rugby Estate includes much of what is now Great Ormond Street , Lamb's Conduit Street and Rugby Street in the London district of Bloomsbury . Up to 1667, the school remained in comparative obscurity. Sheriff's endowment was not fully realized for some time, due to a challenge over the provisions of the will from the Howkins family, to whom Sheriff
1200-512: The author and social critic Salman Rushdie (who said of his time there: "Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too." ) and the Irish writer and republican Francis Stuart . The Indian concert pianist, music composer and singer Adnan Sami also studied at Rugby School. Matthew Arnold's father Thomas Arnold , was a headmaster of the school. Philip Henry Bahr (later Sir Philip Henry Manson-Bahr ),
1250-499: The ball. Rugby fives continues to have a good following with tournaments being run nationwide, presided over by the Rugby Fives Association. The school has produced a number of cricketers who have gone onto play Test and first-class cricket . The school has played host to two major matches, the first of which was a Twenty20 match between Warwickshire and Glamorgan in the 2013 Friends Life t20 . The second match
1300-626: The blueprint for Victorian public schools. Arnold's period as headmaster is immortalised in Thomas Hughes 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days . In the Victorian period, Rugby School saw several further Headmasters of some distinction, these included Frederick Temple (1858–1869) who would later become the Archbishop of Canterbury , John Percival (1887–1895) after whom the Percival Guildhouse
1350-409: The boys retaliated by smashing Mr Rowell's windows and Ingles insisted that the boys pay for the damage. This provoked a full-scale riot , in which the boys blew off doors, smashed windows and burned furniture and books. As the other Masters were away, Ingles called on help from the townsfolk. A party of recruiting soldiers and some townsfolk advanced on the rioters, who retreated onto a moated island in
1400-536: The choice of taking three or four subjects and are also offered the opportunity to take an extended project. The School also offers taking the IB Diploma Programme . Oxbridge acceptance percentage in 2007 was 10.4%. In 2023, 68% of students that took A-levels at Rugby School scored A*/A while 83% of GCSE students scored 9/7. The Governing Body provides financial benefits with school fees to families unable to afford them. Parents of pupils who are given
1450-582: The dean and chapter, and in particular with the treasurer James Graves . It may have been his interest in the restoration of medieval buildings which led to his appointment as the first Inspector of National Monuments under the Irish Board of Works after the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland brought ruined buildings under their care. His work included St Cronan's Church of Ireland, Roscrea, County Tipperary . In contemporary circles, Deane's partner Woodward
1500-420: The early history of the school as they helped to pay the bills. Gradually, as the school's reputation grew, fee-paying Non-Foundationers became dominant and local boys benefited less and less from Sheriff's original intentions. By the latter half of the 19th century it was considered no longer desirable to have local boys attending a prestigious public school and so a new school – Lawrence Sheriff Grammar School –
1550-688: The end of his life, he managed to become a regularly figured artist in the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin . In 1851, he became a partner along with Benjamin Woodward . Their work was primarily a Gothic style influenced by the principles of John Ruskin , and included the museum at Trinity College, Dublin , the Oxford University Museum of Natural History , the Pitt Rivers Museum ,
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1600-400: The family business. As years went on, Deane became a more integrated part of the architecture firm, a practice he officially joined in 1850 and later was to take over after his father passed away in 1871. Throughout his career, Deane never dropped his interest in arts and was a firm believer in architecture would improve by combining education in architecture with studies of fine arts . Towards
1650-462: The forerunner of the Victorian public school . It was one of nine schools investigated by the Clarendon Commission of 1864 and later regulated as one of the seven schools included in the Public Schools Act 1868 . Originally a boys' school, it became fully co-educational in 1992. The school's alumni – or " Old Rugbeians " – include a UK prime minister, a French prime minister, several bishops, poets, scientists, writers and soldiers. Rugby School
1700-505: The latter in the majority. Originally it was for boys only, but girls have been admitted to the sixth form since 1975. It went fully co-educational in 1992. The school community is divided into houses . Pupils beginning Rugby in the F Block (first year) study various subjects. In a pupil's second year (E block), they do nine subjects which are for their GCSEs, this is the same for the D Block (GCSE year). The school then provides standard A-levels in 29 subjects. Students at this stage have
1750-908: The navy. This aspiration was nonetheless denied by his father, and following primary school in England, Deane, in 1846, travelled back to Ireland to attend Trinity College Dublin (TCD). In 1849 he graduated from TCD with a BA. A year after graduation, Deane moved back to Cork where he married Henrietta Manly. While Deane after graduation had explored the possibility of making a living as an artist, he instead entered his father's business initially working on drawings for Queens College Cork, now University College Cork . Throughout his youth, Deane showed an interest in painting, especially painting with watercolours . And immediately after graduating from TCD, he worked towards establishing himself as an artist. This he did despite his father Sir Thomas Deane's lack of approval. Sir Thomas Deane instead saw his son's future as being in
1800-465: The rubber inflatable bladder and the brass hand pump. There were no standard rules for football in Webb Ellis's time at Rugby (1816–1825) and most varieties involved carrying the ball. The games played at Rugby were organised by the pupils and not the masters, the rules being a matter of custom and not written down. They were frequently changed and modified with each new intake of students. Rugby fives
1850-518: The school curriculum and administration. Arnold's and the school's reputations were immortalised through Thomas Hughes ' book Tom Brown's School Days . David Newsome writes about the new educational methods employed by Arnold in his book, 'Godliness and Good Learning' (Cassell 1961). He calls the morality practised at Arnold's school muscular Christianity . Arnold had three principles: religious and moral principle, gentlemanly conduct and academic performance. George Mosse, former professor of history at
1900-401: The school grounds. The Riot Act was read out by a local justice of the peace , calling on the boys to surrender, and while this caused a distraction a group of soldiers waded across the moat from the rear and took the boys prisoner. Rugby School's most famous headmaster was Thomas Arnold , from 1828 to 1841, whose emphasis on moral and religious principle, was widely admired and was seen as
1950-465: The school newspaper The Meteor he quotes an unknown friend relating the story to him. He elaborated on the story four years later in another letter to The Meteor , but shed no further light on its source. Richard Lindon , a boot and shoemaker who had premises across the street from the school's main entrance in Lawrence Sheriff Street, is credited with the invention of the "oval" rugby ball,
2000-401: The school. The legend of William Webb Ellis and the origin of the game is commemorated by a plaque. The story is that Webb Ellis was the first to pick up a football and run with it, and thus invent a new sport. However, the sole source of the story is Matthew Bloxam , a former pupil but not a contemporary of Webb Ellis. In October 1876, four years after the death of Webb Ellis, in a letter to
2050-472: The sixth form and the first girls' house opened three years later, followed by three more. In 1992 the school became fully co-educational when the first 13-year-old girls arrived, and in 1995 Rugby had its first-ever Head Girl, Louise Woolcock, who appeared on the front page of The Times . In September 2003 the last girls' house was added. Today, total enrolment of day pupils, from forms 4 to 12, numbers around 800. The game of Rugby football owes its name to
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2100-590: The three siblings had a step-brother John Connellan and a step-sister Julia Connellan. Deane is described as being a shy and reserved child who struggled with a stammer. The firm had grown to become a successful business and one of the most prominent practises in Ireland. Deane was schooled in England in the public Rugby School . During his childhood, he had inherited an interest in sailing from his father. This led to one of his earliest aspirations in wanting to eventually join
2150-514: The title Newenham . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newenham&oldid=768609674 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas Newenham Deane Sir Thomas Newenham Deane (1828 – 8 November 1899)
2200-407: Was Headmaster between 1794 and 1806, was known for his strict discipline and gained the nickname "The Black Tiger". His time as Headmaster is most notable for the 'Great Rebellion' of 1797 : It started when Ingles heard one of the boys shoot a cork gun, and the boy told him that Mr Rowell, a grocer, had supplied the gunpowder. Mr Rowell denied this, and as a result the boy Astley was flogged by Ingles,
2250-481: Was a List-A one-day match between Warwickshire and Sussex in the 2015 Royal London One-Day Cup , though it was due to host a match in the 2014 competition , however this was abandoned. In the 2015 match, William Porterfield scored a century , with a score of exactly 100. Warwickshire will return to Rugby School in 2024 to play three matches in the One-Day Cup . Rugby School has both day and boarding-pupils,
2300-524: Was an Irish architect, the son of Sir Thomas Deane and Eliza Newenham, and the father of Sir Thomas Manly Deane . His father and son were also architects. Works attributed to Thomas Newenham Deane, and his architectural practice, include the National Library of Ireland , a wing of the National Gallery of Ireland , St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam , the Kildare Street Club , and a number of buildings in
2350-459: Was founded in 1878 in order to continue Sheriff's original bequest for a free school for local boys. On several occasions in the late 19th century Rugby School was visited by the French educator Pierre de Coubertin , who would later cite the school as one of the main inspirations for his most notable achievement, the founding of the modern Olympic Games in 1896. In 1975 two girls were admitted to
2400-428: Was opened on 3 July 1909 by King Edward VII . Designed by Thomas Graham Jackson , it is grade II listed. The Macready Theatre is based in a prominent Victorian building on Lawrence Sheriff Street which was built as classrooms in 1885, in 1975 it was converted into a theatre, in 2018, it was opened to the general public. Rugby's most famous headmaster was Thomas Arnold, appointed in 1828; he executed many reforms to
2450-410: Was related through his sister, Bridget. Its history during that trying period is characterised mainly by a series of lawsuits between the Howkins family, who tried to defeat the intentions of the testator , and the masters and trustees, who tried to carry them out. A final decision was handed down in 1667, confirming the findings of a commission in favour of the trust, and henceforth the school maintained
2500-681: Was seen as the creative influence behind the business, and their practice suffered after his early death. Nevertheless, Deane continued to work with his son, Thomas Manly Deane, designing the National Museum of Ireland and National Library of Ireland in Kildare Street , Dublin. Thomas Newenham Deane was knighted in 1890. On 29 January 1850, Deane married Henrietta Manly, daughter of Joseph H. Manly of Ferney, County Cork. Deane and his wife had several children. Deane died suddenly in Dublin on 8 November 1899. Rugby School Rugby School
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